
he/him || 19 || 🔻🇵🇸 || diasporist ashkenazi bronxite of post-soviet experience || coastal ecologist & river man || priv @l2viatyn || schlemiel/shlimazel
Ranachqua, Lenapehoking
Joined March 2022
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levi🦀 retweeted
the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why
A few bowhead whales born around 1815 might still be alive. They were in their 30s when they first saw a commercial whaling ship; in their 60s when they first heard a propellor; over 100 the first time they heard sonar. I wonder if they remember the silent ocean.
levi🦀 retweeted
Chapter 81, “The Pequod Meets The Virgin.” A whale older than America is killed and immediately wasted by crews whose bloodlust outpaces their skill.
levi🦀 retweeted
there's a part of Moby Dick where they hunt and kill a North Atlantic Right Whale not even for oil but to use its severed head to counterweight a sperm whale head hanging off the ship.
there's like less than 500 right whales left in the wild today. almost gone forever.
levi🦀 retweeted
The first photo shows Kayla when she first arrived at our rehabilitation centre after being rescued, and the second is her today. A whole journey of growing, learning, and becoming bigger and healthier! 🦧💚
Keep growing, Kayla. The world is cheering you on!
#SaveOrangutans
Replying to @yyeahsure
i gotta pretend hasan doesn’t irritate the hell out of me for the sake of our shared enemy in ethan




















































